Cassell Carpenter v. Russell C. Davis, Mayor of Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
424 F.2d 257 · 1970
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Simer v. Rios (1981), Jones v. Diamond (1975)
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Brulotte Et Al. v. Thys Company · William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · United States v. El Paso Natural Gas Co. · Soblen v. United States · Texas v. New Mexico
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he party opposing the class has acted or refused to act on grounds generally applicable to the class, thereby making appropriate final injunctive relief or corresponding declaratory relief with respect to the class as a whole .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“since it is not necessary that the members of the class be so clearly identified that any member be presently determined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.